As the police-custody death in the spring of 2020 of a Black man named George Floyd sparked a national reckoning over police brutality, the American dictionary Merriam-Webster also reconsidered its ...

Merriam-Webster is revising its definition of racism after a Missouri woman's emails claimed it fell short of including the systemic oppression of certain groups of people. Kennedy Mitchum, who lives ...

The claim that Merriam-Webster changed the definition of "anti-vaxxer" is making rounds on social media. "I wasn't an anti-vaxxer until they literally changed the definition," reads the text of a ...

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